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The Mic Is On: What Do You Know . . . About Blogging?

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

The Topic is Everything I know about blogging . . . and who’s got some great ideas?

We might also talk about

  • podcasting, video
  • what we learned, what we want folks to know
  • what was the biggest surprise of 2006
  • what we hope for 2007 and whatever else we ant to share.

including THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and who are those ducks?

Curious Ducks

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: We’re Talking About Blogging

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Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight for Tues. Open Comments

The Topic is: Everything I Know about Blogging. . . and who’s got some great ideas?

We might also talk about podcasting, video and whatever else comes up.

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The D-Z List Goes Back to Work

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The Day After

I know, I know, It’s bad enough we have to remember to write the new date, but back to work too? Catch the story. Click the logo to see whether you’re in it.

The Blogging Times

And “NO, I DIDN’T get that for Christmas!”

Telling the stories of D-Z Land.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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One Sentence, One Word, One Entirely Different Meeting

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The Words I’m Giving Up Are . . .

I’m giving up a popular sentence and it’s variations.

I don’t like this.

I’m brushing off a sentence an old boss used to say. It was quite effective on keeping us focused on the big picture.

power writing at work

From now on, I’m going back to using this one instead

I don’t think I love this.

It calls up a curious, listener’s response.

After all, if we don’t love it, why do it?
AND if we all sincerely can say we love it, there must be something to it.

I change one sentence. I add the word love.

Suddenly the meeting is a mission — words are powerful.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 01-02-07

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

AT&T Concession Thoroughly Debunks Key Anti-Net Neutrality Myth [via Anything They Say]

NEWS RELEASE

AT&T’s agreement to Net Neutrality as a condition of their merger with Bell South was a huge victory for Internet freedom. It also debunks a top myth told to the public by Internet freedom opponents like AT&T: that Net Neutrality can’t be defined. It can be – AT&T just did it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Read on to see how AT&T found a way to do it when it served their financial interests.

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Head and Heart Together: Extreme Leaders Change the World

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I’ve been thinking about changing the world — not that I don’t do that already. Everything we do changes the world in some way. We breathe; we release carbon dioxide for the plants. We smile. We frown. People notice, even if we don’t. We walk the given path or find our own direction. Every step changes what was there before we passed.

But from now on, I want to change the world on purpose, for real, and for the better.

The hard part is making changes for the better. It takes energy to be audacious about pursuing the right goals and values and proving that they make a positive difference. Energy is easy when the world is going smoothly, but not so, when things are extreme and uptight. If I want to always have a positive impact, I need to have energy all times. I need to be an Extreme Leader.

Extreme Leaders know that love generates boundless energy — love of all kinds.

“Love of what future principle we’re trying to live out, love of what people I have around me, and love of what they want for their lives. Love of what customers I have, and love of what customers I might have in the future if I am smarter, faster, and more creative in serving their needs. Love of what impact we can have on the lives of our customers and — if we’re audacious enough — on the world as a whole. Love of what our business really is, and love for what — when we cut away the chaff — we really do at work every day. . . .

If I love who we are, and if I love what we can be, then I’ll love the process of how we get there. And in order to make it all happen, I will act boldly and courageously and I will, at times, fail magnificently. But my love demands that I try. Demands it.” — Steve Farber, as Pops in Radical Leap

Extreme Leaders don’t use their heads solely to run their autonomic functions. They don’t use their hearts only to pump blood.

“Now is the time for all of us to take our power back and become, each of us, Extreme Leaders in our own right. We have to set a new example of what’s right in business and everywhere else. We have to be audacious enough to follow the examples we respect and challenge the ones we don’t.” — Steve Farber, as Edj in Radical Leap

Head and heart together, full-out open, audacious and engaged.

It takes that to be fully human. It takes that to be an Extreme Leader.

When head and heart work together, the world responds positively.

Imagine the little and big changes many Extreme Leaders can make.

How will we change the world this year?

Liz